@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-10-12 11:15:02
Podcast | Hoe private equity publieke instellingen opkoopt met steun van jouw bank https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/podcast-hoe…
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2025-10-12 11:15:02
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-10-12 02:38:15
I am no financial expert, but recent "AI" business news has sounded like blatant fraud. A & B barter B's illiquid equity for A's hardware, make up numbers for it, suddenly they are both more valuable because A books revenue & B gets a market value based on the made up numbers. So maybe they can sell more. Or borrow on it.
Then C "licenses" raw models to D, who pays in equity and tuned AI services D, establishing a price floor for all of D's real…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-08 12:20:39
Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-08 10:03:50
Lighthouse Tech awarded CHF 1.2M from Innosuisse, and launches Equity Crowdfunding round to scale growth https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/02/3197664/0/e…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-12 13:51:02
Tel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which helps spot abnormal cloud infrastructure behavior, raised $75M led by Evolution Equity, taking its total funding to $120M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-11 02:06:09
Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-09 15:01:38
Under its contract with Artists Equity, Netflix will pay the crew a bonus if The Rip performs well, a departure from its usual refusal to make back-end payments (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/business/media/ne…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-03 07:53:00
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-01 17:25:36
Trump commutes 7-year prison sentence of former private equity CEO David Gentile (Rebecca Shabad/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-commutes-7-year-prison-sentence-former-private-equity-ceo-david-rcna246744
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p52#a251201p52
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 16:29:18
Minnesota receives federal approval on their final BEAD
(Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) proposal
-- Christopher Terry
https://blandinonbroadband.org/2025/12/20/minnesota-…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-07 16:02:11
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-04 17:33:25
In Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating.
It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.
Very excited to see!
https://gandersocial.ca/blog/just-giver-why-were-inviting-canadians…
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.org2025-10-20 19:09:28
The monthly Digital Library Federation Committee on #equity and #inclusion mtg is a welcoming space to discuss supporting #libraries,
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-14 00:06:46
Good NYT piece (gift link). Tl;dr: Financial whiz kids want to get their hands on mainstream retirement & insurance money so it can be plowed into unregulated private-debt markets and crypto. What could go wrong? https://www.
@rberger@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 08:22:48
"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-08 14:40:41
Samba TV raised up to $60M in venture debt to scale through acquisitions and new AI-powered measurement tools; Samba previously raised $69M in equity funding (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/samba-tv-measurement-venture-debt
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-12-01 20:03:35
Dutch government has let all messages within the judicial system run via Solvinity, a company now about to be sold by a UK-based private equity firm to US-based Kyndryl. Which brings the data within reach of the Trump regime.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-04 10:06:07
Chancellor of the Exchequer Reeves with not one but 2 imperial flags and the lectern slogan, "Strong Foundations | Secure Future", neither of which can be claimed in any sense, either as the present reality or as the result of whatever 'tough choices' she will trail.
The only tough choices that matter are to reduce material and energy usage coupled with a massive redistribution of wealth to secure a 'strong foundation' of security and equity, in terms of ecolog…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-12-31 00:00:17
"Private equity believes Americans will pay anything to save their pets."
- The rise of Big Vet
▶️ Wall Street's Shocking Plan For America's Pets - More Perfect Union
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Po6muzvQgEk&si=LGhx3dY2u6Yw2kEt
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-08 03:40:49
Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-reserves-50-billion-sto…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 17:01:32
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) (About Netflix)
https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p57#a251205p57
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-01-02 16:09:18
Now that the Vondelkerk has burned down, they can finally bulldoze the site and build high-rise luxury housing in central Amsterdam to sell to foreign investors and private equity. It's a great opportunity for the market!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-18 15:20:57
Members of UK performing arts union Equity vote overwhelmingly in favor of refusing to be scanned while on set to prevent their likeness being used by AI (Lanre Bakare/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-24 01:36:24
Sanders Slams Private Equity Scrooges Ending Paid Holidays for Walgreens Workers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-walgreen-workers
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 16:37:19
Why donate to SEEC PAC?
The Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition Political Action Committee
exists to support SEEC members in Congress and candidates who fight for clean energy, climate change solutions, environmental justice, and protection of our nation’s clean air, water, wildlife, and natural environment.
https://seecpac.org/<…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-02 14:20:44
Vista Equity-backed infrastructure software company LogicMonitor acquires Catchpoint, which monitors user experiences across the internet, for $250M in cash (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-11-26 17:13:02
Adrian Newey to be team principal (!) at Aston Martin
https://www.astonmartinf1.com/en-GB/news/announcement/aston-martin-aramco-announces-changes-to-leadership-structure
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-11-25 16:27:12
I guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-23 02:11:00
Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/trump-administration-in-talks-to-take-equity-stakes-in-quantum-computing-firms-60ee5143
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p172#a251022p172
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-02 20:16:00
(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world."
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-07 15:30:49
Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/fireblocks-tres-finance-acquisition-130-million/…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-30 14:04:00
Germany just committed €3 billion to help lower-income families afford electric vehicles. This is a game-changer for EV accessibility—making clean transportation a reality for people who've been priced out of the electric transition. It's not just about climate goals anymore; it's about equity.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-05 21:53:58
Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 18:20:42
Donald Trump has set free a private equity executive
who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence
for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme
that defrauded thousands of victims.
David Gentile, 59, a onetime resident of Nassau County, N.Y.,
had reported to prison on Nov. 14, and was released on Wednesday, according to Bureau of Prisons records and a White House official who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Mr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 14:35:49
Oracle says final negotiations on an equity deal for its Michigan data center project are "on schedule" and Related Digital will be its development partner (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-20 12:11:13
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-10-15 13:53:41
Cork (Ireland), will host the 12th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in 2027 with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
Cork 2027 | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/conference/cork-2027
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-02 02:05:38
The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-administration-to…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-05 14:40:29
Universal Music India acquires a 30% equity stake in Mumbai-based Excel Entertainment in a deal valuing the Indian production house at $290M (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 02:06:30
Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-14 00:30:48
Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2025-12-13 10:12:55
Profitmaschine Pflegeheime
Senevita gehört Tertianum. Tertianum gehört Capvis AG. Die Private-Equity-Firma Capvis in Baar macht mit der #Altenpflege Geld.
#Pflege #Kapital
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-04 20:55:51
The University of Alabama suspends two student-run magazines, one focused on Black students and another on women's issues, citing federal anti-DEI guidance (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/university-of-alabama-dei-tru…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-05 21:46:07
Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/snap-…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-10-30 18:08:59
Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires While Accepting Award: 'Give Your Money Away, Shorties' https://apple.news/AJZGwWdM5R9CSGm7Y_dwbLQ
11.5 million for food equity, climate justice, carbon reduction, and combating climate change. Thank you, Billie 💗💗💗
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-19 16:29:44
The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale
from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices,
according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian.
The memo, dated 17 November, recommends excluding institutions from
the Diplomacy Lab – a program that pairs university researchers with state department policy offices
– if they “openly en…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-04 16:20:51
Beacon Software, which buys niche software businesses and uses AI to transform them, raised a $250M Series B led by GC, Lightspeed, and D1 at a $1B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/beacon-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 03:45:43
A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-15 09:55:36
US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-28 16:54:17
Proud to see UC Press books recognized across these best-of lists.
From pandemic response and climate history to teaching,
art, and the politics of equity,
these books reflect the kind of publishing we believe in:
books that challenge assumptions,
recover overlooked lives,
and bring complex ideas into public conversation.
Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-01 22:10:43
Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-23 01:26:06
Sources: quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti, and D-Wave are in talks to give the US Commerce Dept. equity in exchange for $10M each in funding (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepren…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-31 21:36:05
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-26 00:48:39
Days after starting his second term, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders that targeted DEI programs and policies for elimination, decrying them as illegal and immoral.
Museums across the country scrambled to react
— and in many cases, comply.
Within days, Washington’s National Gallery of Art announced it would close its office of belonging and inclusion
and remove the words “diversity, equity, access and inclusion” from its list of values on its website. …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-24 15:36:02
Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-29 23:20:31
UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eaad78f4-b52c-4116-ad1b-3e79694ebeed
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-29 09:05:26
Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-28 13:04:47
OpenAI says it has "completed our recapitalization", the OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B, and it continues to control the OpenAI for-profit (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-14 13:01:51
RedBird Capital drops its £500M bid for the Telegraph Media Group, after intense pressure from the Telegraph newsroom and allies over the group's links to China (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/14/redbird-ca…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-27 22:25:47
Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raised CA$750M co-led by Dragoneer and GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$10B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/wealthsimple-hits-10-billion-valuation…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 15:50:58
EU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-12 17:26:07
Sources: DMGT has locked down funding for its £500M acquisition of the Telegraph, in a funding package expected to comprise equity and debt (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/beff1427-c291-496b-8823-457f01e293f8
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 05:35:38
The Biden administration may have shot the serif,
switching from Times New Roman font on the grounds that serif-less fonts such as Calibri are more accessible to readers with disabilities.
That’s all over now.
The State Department Action Request reads:
“To restore decorum and professionalism to the Department’s written work products
and abolish yet another wasteful DEIA [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] program,
the Department is return…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-23 06:40:49
Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk00v9g9e11g
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-22 07:05:54
General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-21 22:21:48
Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/findem-funding-ai-powered-hiring-re…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-24 15:35:49
Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-21 21:06:49
Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-forms-joint-ventu…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-21 15:15:50
Galaxy Digital reports Q3 net income of $505M and total assets up 27% QoQ to $11.5B, including $1.9B in cash and stablecoins and $3.2B in equity (Blockworks)
https://blockworks.co/news/galaxy-posts-505m-profit
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 04:50:43
Tebra, which offers practice management tools for private healthcare providers, raised $250M led by Hildred, mostly in equity, to accelerate its AI capabilities (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/12/tebra-receives-250m-in-funding.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-14 15:06:01
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous warehouse robots, raised a $165M Series C in equity and debt, after raising a $80M Series B in 2024 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-robotics-startup-dexory-raises-165m/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-13 21:45:44
Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance (Saeed Azhar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/go…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-14 21:36:00
Filing: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/warren-buffetts-berkshir…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-14 05:55:56
Sources: OpenAI told staff it was ending the six-month "vesting cliff" that required new employees to work for at least six months before their equity vests (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-12 22:15:56
Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ch
